Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 (Qld)

Queensland Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 Subordinate Legislation 2011 No. 71 made under the ElectoralAct1992 Contents 1 2 3 Schedule Page Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Insertion of new pt 4A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Part 4A Election funding and financial disclosure 6A Prescribed qualifications or experience for auditors. . 2 6B Prescribed times for disclosure period . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6C Obligation of agent to notify donor of requirements about political donations—prescribed words for prescribed statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6D Disclosure by candidates of political donations and gifts—prescribed time for giving returns. . . . . . . . . . . 3 6E Particular gifts not to be received—time prescribed for remaining a candidate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6F Prescribed time for giving returns of electoral expenditure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6G Prescribed time for giving returns for reporting periods by registered political parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6H Prescribed time for giving returns for reporting periods by associated entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Amendments consequential to renumbering of provisions of Act ......................................... 5

Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 [s 1] 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the Electoral Regulation 2002 . 3 Insertion of new pt 4A After section 6— insert— ‘Part 4A Election funding and financial disclosure ‘6A Prescribed qualifications or experience for auditors ‘For the Act, section 197, definition auditor , paragraph (a), the following qualifications or experience for an individual are prescribed— (a) registration as an auditor under the Corporations Act; (b) membership of CPA Australia and an entitlement to use the letters ‘CPA’ or ‘FCPA’; (c) membership of the Institute of Public Accountants and an entitlement to use the letters ‘MPA’ or ‘FIPA’; (d) membership of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and an entitlement to use the letters ‘CA’ or ‘FCA’. ‘6B Prescribed times for disclosure period ‘(1) For the Act, section 198(1)(a) or (b), the prescribed time before the polling day mentioned in the section is 4 years. ‘(2) For the Act, section 198(1)(a), (c) or (2), the prescribed time after the polling day mentioned in the section is 30 days. Page 2 2011 SL No. 71

Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 [s 3] ‘6C Obligation of agent to notify donor of requirements about political donations—prescribed words for prescribed statement ‘For the Act, section 259(2), definition prescribed statement , the following are the prescribed words— “Warning: it is an offence for a person to make a political donation - that is a gift intended for use for campaign purposes for a State election - if the donation exceeds the applicable donation cap provided for in the ElectoralAct1992 . Information on applicable donation caps may be obtained by contacting the Electoral Commission Queensland by telephone on 1300 881 665 during normal business hours, or on the commission’s website at ‘6D Disclosure by candidates of political donations and gifts—prescribed time for giving returns ‘For the Act, section 261(1), the prescribed time after the polling day for an election within which the agent of each person who was a candidate in the election must give to the commission a return is 15 weeks. ‘6E Particular gifts not to be received—time prescribed for remaining a candidate ‘For the Act, section 271(5), the time prescribed for which a person who is a candidate in an election must be taken to remain a candidate in the election is 30 days after the polling day for the election. ‘6F Prescribed time for giving returns of electoral expenditure ‘For the Act, section 283(1), (2) or (3), the prescribed time before the expiration of which the commission must be given the return, mentioned in the section, for a capped expenditure 2011 SL No. 71 Page 3

Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 [s 3] period for an election is 15 weeks after the polling day for the election. ‘6G Prescribed time for giving returns for reporting periods by registered political parties ‘For the Act, section 290, the prescribed time within which the agent of each registered political party must give to the commission a return is 8 weeks after the end of each reporting period. ‘6H Prescribed time for giving returns for reporting periods by associated entities ‘For the Act, section 294(1), the prescribed time within which an associated entity’s financial controller must give a return to the commission is 8 weeks after the reporting period mentioned in the section.’. Page 4 2011 SL No. 71

Schedule Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 Schedule Amendments consequential to renumbering of provisions of Act section 2 1 Section 3, heading, ‘s 3’— omit, insert— ‘ s 2 ’. 2 Section 3, ‘section 3’— omit, insert— ‘section 2’. 3 Section 5, heading, ‘s 70’— omit, insert— ‘ s 71 ’ . 4 Section 5(1) ‘section 70(4)(g)’— omit, insert— ‘section 71(4)(g)’ . 5 Section 5(2), ‘schedule, section 287’— omit, insert— ‘section 197’ . 6 Section 6, heading, ‘s 148H’— omit, insert— ‘ s 166 ’. 2011 SL No. 71 Page 5

Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2011 ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 26 May 2011. 2 Notified in the gazette on 27 May 2011. 3 Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4 The administering agency is the Department of Justice and Attorney-General. © State of Queensland 2011 Page 6 2011 SL No. 71